Christmas Music Fans?
- Thread starter tarak
- Start date
SmokingPipes.com Updates
Watch for Updates Twice a Week
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
Site Sponsors
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
- Status
The only radio station I can pick up here where I work starts just after Thanksgiving. I love it and so does the wife. I especially like them made before 1970 for the most part.
I can honestly say that I like all forms of music! However, I have a hard time with Christmas music. I'm pretty sure it stems from it being over played virtually everywhere starting abour NOW!
Maybe it is a bit early yet for Christmas Music. I'm usually ok with it about a week before Thanksgiving. Otherwise it gets really old really fast. I know it will likely be starting up where I work and I'll be hearing it for hours on end probably from this very week until the first of January. Yikes.... however....
I came across this beautiful piece of music today. For those of you who have not heard her music, Lindsey Stirling is an amazing musician. I love her music. So this is my early Christmas present to my fellow pipers here at Pipesmagazine. I truly believe, regardless of religious beliefs and regardless of musical preference, you will all find this absolutely beautiful, absolutely stunning, very moving, and absolutely soul stirring. So load up your favorite pipe, right now, with your favorite tobacco, lean back and turn up the volume. And enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A3i0GATnRI
I came across this beautiful piece of music today. For those of you who have not heard her music, Lindsey Stirling is an amazing musician. I love her music. So this is my early Christmas present to my fellow pipers here at Pipesmagazine. I truly believe, regardless of religious beliefs and regardless of musical preference, you will all find this absolutely beautiful, absolutely stunning, very moving, and absolutely soul stirring. So load up your favorite pipe, right now, with your favorite tobacco, lean back and turn up the volume. And enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A3i0GATnRI
Yeah, I am pretty much the same. I do enjoy it, but only in December.
That reservation aside, I'd like to cast my vote for the best Christmas song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqwqknq7nuI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUEUF6Qh8ys&list=PL1RUS3vUFz3BS-AWQE7lrnPKwiez_22MS
About sums it up for me...
About sums it up for me...
My wife starts playing Christmas music in October. If I hear the music from the Charlie Brown special one more time I'm going to hurl. I do enjoy alternate takes on traditional Christmas songs and tire of hearing the same artists singing the same songs year after hear.
A couple of favorites of mine, enjoyed in small doses:
John Prines Christmas-sort of album, is terrific, from "A John Prine Christmas"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NgGjWKtQp0
My favorite Christmas song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj-Vff5HPhc
Best Christmas Album:
A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector. No one sings a Christmas tune like Darlene Love. The production is amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37v0CE-pXss
A couple of favorites of mine, enjoyed in small doses:
John Prines Christmas-sort of album, is terrific, from "A John Prine Christmas"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NgGjWKtQp0
My favorite Christmas song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj-Vff5HPhc
Best Christmas Album:
A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector. No one sings a Christmas tune like Darlene Love. The production is amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37v0CE-pXss
I just love Xmas music but I'm very particular about the way it's performed
I need large orchestras, acapella singers (Barry Manilow comes to mind) brass quintets-that type of thing
When I was in school I arranged some tunes for brass quintet during the holidays and included 'oh Hanukkah oh Hanukkah' in several church services in NYC that were very well received by the attendees!
I need large orchestras, acapella singers (Barry Manilow comes to mind) brass quintets-that type of thing
When I was in school I arranged some tunes for brass quintet during the holidays and included 'oh Hanukkah oh Hanukkah' in several church services in NYC that were very well received by the attendees!
Nice thread, Tarak.
I'm with the old timers: Christmas music post 11/1, especially the non-Anglican hymns, should be sung by the golden throated crooners: Frank, Bing, Dino, Nat and Mel with a pass given to Harry Connick, Jr. and anybody else with the stones to sing Cahn and Styne's "The Christmas Waltz."
Fnord
I'm with the old timers: Christmas music post 11/1, especially the non-Anglican hymns, should be sung by the golden throated crooners: Frank, Bing, Dino, Nat and Mel with a pass given to Harry Connick, Jr. and anybody else with the stones to sing Cahn and Styne's "The Christmas Waltz."
Fnord
Jud: :rofl:
I'll admit it. While driving over to see the folks it was snowing in the mountain passes and on came the Christmas music. Gotta have Johnnie Mathis and Jim Brickman. The minute we were on the flat the books on CD came out - it's a 6 hour journey.
I'll admit it. While driving over to see the folks it was snowing in the mountain passes and on came the Christmas music. Gotta have Johnnie Mathis and Jim Brickman. The minute we were on the flat the books on CD came out - it's a 6 hour journey.
- Status